Hack Education

OCTOBER 20, 2018

First, the role that corporations and philanthropists play in shaping education policy is not new. My favorite ludicrous claim remains that of Knewton’s CEO who told NPR in 2015 that his company was a “mind reading robot tutor in the sky.” Let’s be clear, Google Search is very much a “black box.”

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Knewton Education Company Learning 60

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

” In his book, Srnicek identifies five kinds of platforms: advertising platforms (like Google and Facebook), cloud platforms (like Salesforce and Amazon Web Services), industrial platforms (like GE and Siemens), product platforms (like Spotify), and lean platforms (like Uber and AirBnB). Education’s Proto-Platforms.

Technology 62

Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Morial is one of three schools that received a one-time $300,000 grant from the nonprofit New Schools for New Orleans in March 2015. The school used the money for a bulk order of Google Chromebooks, allowing every classroom to have a laptop for each student. There was no statistically significant effect on reading scores.

Personalized Learning 98

Personalized Learning Software Data Report 98

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

The group pledged to review all its policies to prioritize equity. He ordered the district to make its gifted admissions policies fair to students of all races and eliminate the separate class for Hispanic kids. Beyond the specific policy changes, the district realized that educating its employees and the public was also important.

Elementary 116

Elementary Policies Data Report 116

Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

“I’m slightly wary of building a Google data profile of a young child,” says @ashleyrcarman @verge [link]. Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye the week of March 13, 2017 – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. Strong opinions may be weakly held.

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EdTech Chromebook Laptops iPad 170

MindShift

MARCH 16, 2021

The group pledged to review all its policies to prioritize equity. He ordered the district to make its gifted admissions policies fair to students of all races and eliminate the separate class for Hispanic kids. Beyond the specific policy changes, the district realized that educating its employees and the public was also important.

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Elementary Data Policies Report 48

Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

percent) did not offer any entirely online courses to high school students during the 2015-16 school year. Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye this past week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. public high schools (42.5

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EdTech Tablets Policies E-rate 150

Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

percent) did not offer any entirely online courses to high school students during the 2015-16 school year. Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye this past week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. public high schools (42.5

EdTech 150

EdTech Tablets Policies E-rate 150

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Intermediary funders and education-policy groups that depend on their grant dollars — including iNACOL, Excel in Ed, the Learning Accelerator, Big Picture Learning and Jobs for the Future — have, in turn, made personalized learning a priority. A similar dynamic continues to play out across the country.

Personalized Learning 105

Personalized Learning Learning Chromebook Elementary 105

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

The New York Times broke the news this week that New America ousted its Open Markets team after it praised a recent EU fine against Google : “Google Critic Ousted From Think Tank Funded by the Tech Giant.” ” New America has received more than $21 million from Google. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

Education 97

Education Khan Academy Company Libraries 97

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Via KPCC : “ Ref Rodriguez has given up the role of president of the Los Angeles Unified School Board – but is not resigning his seat on the board altogether – one week after the announcement he’d face felony charges for alleged campaign finance violations during his 2015 run for office.” support, EFF resigns.”

Education 48

Education Knewton Kaplan Robotics 48

Hack Education

AUGUST 11, 2017

” Chalkbeat on vouchers in Indiana : “Choice for most: In nation’s largest voucher program, $16 million went to schools with anti-LGBT policies.” ” The Google Memo. ” Via The Guardian’s Julie Carrie Wong : “Segregated Valley: the ugly truth about Google and diversity in tech.”

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Education Coursera Khan Academy MOOC 45

Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

.” Note the significant difference in language in this headline from The Verge , for example – “ Harvard’s Root robot teaches kids how to code ” – and the way in which Seymour would describe the LOGO Turtle – that students would using programming to teach the robot. Google’s Alphabet Inc.

Technology 85

Technology Education Microsoft Industry 85

Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2018

Bush administration, as senior policy adviser.” ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Civil Rights Groups Sue DeVos Over Title IX Policies.” ” Edsurge on the Google press release : “Google’s Education Suite is Still Free, but New Add-Ons For Administrators Come With a Fee.”

Education 46

Education MOOC Robotics Company 46

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. The startup was later sold to Valore Education in 2015 , which was in turn acquired by Follett in 2016 , which in turn shut down the Boundless site in 2017. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning.

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Pearson MOOC Company Industry 145

Hack Education

MARCH 16, 2018

Via The New York Times : “ Trump Finds Unlikely Culprit in School Shootings: Obama Discipline Policies.” ” Via The Wall Street Journal : “ Visas Issued to Foreign Students Fall, Partly Due to Trump Immigration Policy.” Perhaps it should go in the “robots” section.

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Education MOOC Company Report 46

Hack Education

MAY 19, 2017

DeVos is the former chair of the American Federation for Children, which advocates for school choice policies, such as tax credit scholarships and vouchers. She and her husband also donated $200,000 to AFC’s charitable arm in 2014 and 2015 through the Dick and Betsy DeVos Family Foundation. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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Edmodo Education Knewton Pearson 45

Hack Education

MARCH 17, 2017

Via Inside Higher Ed : “The Trump administration on Thursday withdrew 2015 guidance issued by the Obama administration that barred student loan guarantee agencies from charging collection fees to defaulted borrowers who start repaying their loans quickly.” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. “Tele-instruction.”

Education 46

Education MOOC Company Report 46

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Via ProPublica : “Another Unrealistic Trump Policy Proposal: Homeschool Vouchers.” ” Libertarian (and longshot) presidential hopeful Gary Johnson says his education policy proposals would involve scrapping the Department of Education. Via Buzzfeed : “ Clinton Touts Plan That Would Make College Free For Most.”

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Education Report MOOC E-rate 40

Hack Education

JULY 14, 2017

” Via The New York Times : “ Campus Rape Policie s Get a New Look as the Accused Get DeVos’s Ear.” ” Via The New York Times : “ DeVos Says She Will Revisit Obama-Era Sexual Assault Policies.” ” More on the Afghan robotics team in the contest section below. for Robotics Contest.”

Education 45

Education Pearson Report Robotics 45

Hack Education

DECEMBER 17, 2017

.” That’s because the stories told this year to keep us hustling and to keep up imagining a certain kind of future are almost all about robots. Over and over and over and over and over and over and over again we were told “robots are coming for your jobs.” We must prepare preschoolers for an automated future.

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Robotics MOOC Training Industry 59

Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2016

Despite the press coverage – the funding announcement was made on Oprah – things didn’t really go as planned , as journalist Dale Russakoff has recounted in her 2015 book The Prize. AltSchool, a private school startup, was founded in 2014 by Max Ventilla, a former Google executive.

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Technology Pearson Education Facebook 73

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Says He Will Lead Federal Task Force on Higher-Ed Policy,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reports. Also via The New York Times : “ Google , in Post-Obama Era, Aggressively Woos Republicans.” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. It planned to do so back in 2015.) Via The NY Daily News : “ N.Y.

Education 40

Education MOOC Data Elsevier 40

Hack Education

MARCH 10, 2017

” Via NPR : “ Trump ’s International Policies Could Have Lasting Effects On Higher Ed.” More about Trump’s immigration policies in a separate section below. And more about Trump and for-profit higher ed policies in the for-profit higher ed section below. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

Education 46

Education Robotics E-rate Social Media 46

Hack Education

OCTOBER 20, 2017

The school is listed in this 2015 story by Inside Higher Ed on for-profits “where more than half of federal student loan borrowers had not made a single dollar of progress in paying down their loans seven years after they became due.” It’s one of a number of departures from Edsurge recently: Mary Jo Madda is now at Google.

Education 48

Education Coursera MOOC Report 48

Hack Education

AUGUST 18, 2017

Tune into the Contrafabulists podcast this weekend, when Kin Lane and I will discuss the response (or lack thereof) from the tech industry, including Cloudflare , Spotify , Squarespace , GoDaddy , Google , the EFF , and others. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” Via Go To Hellman : “ PubMed Lets Google Track User Searches.”

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Education MOOC Report Data 49

Hack Education

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Testing, Testing… From the OECD : “ PISA 2015 Results.” ” According to Edsurge , Knewton is now a courseware company and not a “robot tutor in the sky.” ” The Information reported that Rubin was “involved in an inappropriate relationship with a female subordinate while he was at Google.”

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Knewton Education Company MOOC 46

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Via Inside Higher Ed : “Frank Brogan, the chancellor of the Pennsylvania State University System from 2013 until retiring this year, has joined the Department of Education in the Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development – likely ahead of a nomination to a separate position.” ” No.

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Education Facebook Company Report 45

Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2017

” And by “take on,” that means “investigating and suing universities over affirmative action admissions policies deemed to discriminate against white applicants.” ” More on Trump’s proposed immigration policies in the immigration section below. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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Khan Academy Elsevier Education MOOC 46

Hack Education

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Jeb Bush’s lieutenant governor, as assistant secretary of elementary and secondary education, the top post at the Education Department overseeing K–12 policy.” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ Private Colleges Had 58 Millionaire Presidents in 2015.” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

Kaplan 50

Kaplan Education Robotics E-rate 50

Hack Education

JULY 21, 2017

This coding bootcamp was acquired by the University of Phoenix’s parent company, Apollo Education Group , in 2015. Via the Google blog : “ Google introduces Hire , a new recruiting app that integrates with G Suite.” ” Google boasts about “ teaching skills ” using VR. Competition.”

Education 46

Education LMS Robotics E-rate 46

Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

” “Policy-based Privacy is Over,” says Eric Hellman. Some (education policy) history from Sherman Dorn : “The pendulum and the ratchet.” Via The New York Times : “ Google , in Post-Obama Era, Aggressively Woos Republicans ” – so enjoy that Google Certification, educators.

Education 40

Education Coursera Robotics E-rate 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

But I wanted to consider too why the stories we repeatedly tell about education and education technology were so fanciful – stories about impending disruptions and revolutions and robot teachers and brain zappers and so on. The Pew survey shows dramatic downward shifts in Republicans’ opinions on higher ed just since 2015.)

Technology 71

Technology Education Facebook Social Media 71

Hack Education

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Foxx , a North Carolina Republican who just won election to her seventh term in Congress, was named on Friday as the new chairwoman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce , the main policy-making panel for higher education in the chamber.” “The 2015 PISA Results: What Do They Mean?” “U.S.

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Education Report E-rate Company 40